Successful Private Practice in Neuropsychology and Neuro-Rehabilitation : A Scientist-Practitioner Model.

Front Cover -- Successful Practice in Neuropsychology and Neuro-Rehabilitation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Reference -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Challenges of Practice in Neuropsychology -- Pros and Cons of the Institutional Setting -- Maintaining High-Level Skills -- The Interdisciplinary Network -- Do Not Go Gently into That Research Decline -- Creating Educational Opportunities -- Productively Managing Anxiety: Income -- Protectively Managing Anxiety: Malpractice -- Personality Factors in Private Practice -- Ego Needs and Decreased Prestige -- Ongoing Consultation: Are You Willing to Seek It? The Buck Stops Here -- Chapter 2: Other Potential Indignities -- No Paid Sick Leave or Holidays -- No Additional Reimbursement for Professional Fees -- No Guaranteed Salary or Health-Care Benefits -- Overhead Expenses -- Billing, Collections, and Taxes -- Chapter 3: The Good News -- Integrating Skills and Interests in Patient Selection -- Creating the Optimal Schedule -- Flexible Hours and Days -- First Choice on Vacation Slots -- Design Your Own Contracts -- Setting Your Own Fees -- Brief Comment on Fees and the Institutional Setting -- Determining Salary -- Choosing Your Own Support Services -- Office Location, Space, and Atmosphere -- Developing Your Own Letterhead and Brochures -- Personalized Report Formats -- Test Selection -- Tax Advantages -- Chapter 4: Getting Started: Practical Preliminary Questions -- Are You Experienced Enough to Be on Your Own? -- Individual or Group Practice -- Interdisciplinary Practices -- Full-Time or Part-Time Private Practice -- Income Factors -- Related Scheduling, Dictation, and Billing Factors -- Consultation or Supervision Practices -- Teaching -- Classroom Teaching -- Workshops -- In-Service Training -- Developing and Running Your Own Continuing Education Course.

Medical-Legal Work -- Neuropsychological Evaluations and Expert Witness Work -- Hospital and Clinic Affiliations -- University or Medical School Positions -- Adjunct Appointments -- Part-Time Clinical Faculty -- Chapter 5: A Practical Guide for Opening Your Business -- Dont Burn Bridges -- Clinician, Know Thyself -- A Moveable Feast: The Menu of Practice Options -- Maintain a Part-Time Practice with Your Previous Employer -- Developing a Safety Net: Starting with a Group -- Offering Contract Services to Inpatient Rehabilitation Units -- Offering Contract Services to Private Clinics -- Membership in Managed Care Panels -- Obtaining Adjunct or Clinical Teaching Appointments -- How to Determine Fair Fees -- How to Find Good Help -- Developing a Business Plan and Practice Management Statistics -- Chapter 6: Marketing and Other Matters -- First: The Other Matters -- Next: The Marketing Piece: The Introductory Letter -- Develop Seminars and Workshops -- Give Guest Lectures -- Offer a Memory Course to the Public -- Contact Local Physicians and Fellow Neuropsychologists -- Contact Independent Nurse Case Managers -- Contact Private Vocational Firms -- Attend Weekly Hospital Teaching Rounds -- Supervise Residents, Interns, and Postdoctoral Fellows -- Obtain Graduate Student Help for Research -- Conference Participation: Yours and Other Related Professions -- Publish -- Final Comment -- Chapter 7: Creative Approaches to Financial Issues -- Next Steps -- Trading Consultation Time for Office Space -- Sharing Testing Materials -- Advice on Billing and Collections -- Obtaining Basic Data from Your Patients -- Obtaining Insurance Authorization -- Contract and 50% Down for Private NPE -- ICD-9 and CPT Codes -- How to Bill and Collect for Legal Work -- Reduced Cost Malpractice Insurance -- Contract Assistants.

One Final Insurance Note on Using Contract Neuropsychologists -- Tax Deductions, a Good Accountant, and Type of Business -- Chapter 8: Medical-Legal Work -- The Problems with Legal Work -- True Believer Polemics in the Absence of Strong Scientific Data -- Integrity and Reputation-Are You a Plaintiff or a Defense Expert? -- Potential War of the Clinical and Legal Worlds -- Subtle Influence and Examiner Drift -- Inadvertent Promotion of a Litigious Zeitgeist -- The Benefits of Forensic Work -- Reference -- Chapter 9: Consultation and Supervision Practice -- Clinical Psychologists, Primary Care Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Neurology or Rehabilitation... -- Neuropsychologists Who Wish to Augment Their Training -- Therapists in Social Work, Counseling, or Pastoral Counselors -- Rehabilitation Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Vocational Counselors, Rehabi... -- Consultation with Psychologists Preparing for Licensure -- Chapter 10: Psychometric Concerns -- The Interview: Who Should Be Present and Why? -- The Collateral Interviews: When, Why, and with Whom? -- Preparing the Patient to Be Tested -- Test Selection -- Core Batteries: Key Areas of Function That Must Be Assessed -- My Typical Comprehensive Battery -- Brief Batteries: Screening or Pre-Postprocedure Testing -- Core Battery -- Supplemental Tests -- Selective Additional Testing: Divided by Specific Areas of Concern -- Effort -- Premorbid IQ Estimates -- Significant Memory Impairment -- Mild but Real Neuropsychological Impairments -- Modified Batteries Secondary to Physical or Sensory Limitations -- Evaluating Personality in Neuropsychological Assessment -- Cross-Cultural Issues -- Use of Psychometrists -- Report Formats -- Review of Test Results -- Dictation Versus Typing it Yourself -- Dissemination of Reports.

Preservation of Testing Files and Raw Data -- Chapter 11: Treatment Practices for Neuropsychologists -- Your Training Background and Future Training Needs -- What Kind of Practice do you Want? -- Other Parts of Good Clinical Practice Development: Outpatient Psychotherapy -- Establishing Short-Term and Long-Term Groups -- Individual Treatment in a Neuropsychology Practice -- Psychotherapy -- Cognitive Rehabilitation -- Billing and Reimbursement Issues -- Other Practice Options: Employee Assistance Program Contracts -- Other Practice Options: Case Management Services -- References -- Chapter 12: Nuts and Bolts of Your Evaluation Practice -- Referrals -- Referral Etiquette -- Educating Referral Sources -- Purpose of Testing -- Working Diagnosis -- Scheduling of Patients for Interview and Testing -- Time Frame for Report -- Mechanisms of Feedback to Referral Sources and Patients -- Clinician Feedback -- Feedback to Patients -- Estimated Costs of Evaluation -- Patient Information Handouts and Registration Forms -- Obtaining Records -- What Are Pertinent Records -- Release of Information for Additional Information -- Insurance Preauthorization of Services -- Private Insurance -- Contract Services and Legal Work -- Timely Billing and Collections -- Billing -- Collections -- Chapter 13: Neuro-Rehabilitation Program Treatment: Principles and Process -- Introduction -- What Is Milieu-Based Treatment? -- The Value of Work in the Lives of Humans -- Why Is the Traditional Versus the Milieu-Based Rehabilitation Distinction Important -- What Is Traditional Outpatient Rehabilitation? -- Why Is Milieu-Based Treatment Needed for the ``Medium-Severe?´´ -- Guiding Philosophy and Principles of the Milieu Model -- Some Implications of Psychological Factors in Evaluation and Treatment -- Unwitting Misinterpretation of Evaluation Findings -- Clinicians are Not Blank Slates.

Practical Considerations for Neuro-Rehabilitation -- Team Constellation -- A Commentary on the Critical Function and Role of Psychometrists -- Key Practical Program Components -- Fundamental Relationship Between NPE and NRP Treatments -- Why Is It Useful for Neuropsychologists to Fully Understand Cognitive Rehabilitation? -- Other Practical Examples of NPE-NRP Connections -- NPE in Return to Work, School, and Community Independence -- General Comments -- NPE and Return to Work -- NPE and Return to School -- Some Problematic Challenges to the Confidentiality of Students NPE Data -- Student Athletes -- Medical School and Medical Residency Applicants -- NPE Findings and Increased Independence in the Community -- How Can the Milieu-Based Model Be Modified for Your Practice? -- For Private Practitioners or Institution-Based NPs in Non-NRP Departments -- A Brief Aside on Speed of Information Processing and Flexibility of Thinking -- Implications for Return to School, Return to Work, and New Technologies -- Closing Comments -- References -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: How to Design and Implement a Cognitive Group -- Introduction -- Which Patients? -- Basic Clinical Rules and Procedures -- Patient Screening -- Attendance, Participation, Confidentiality, Respect -- Use of Co-Leaders -- Individual Therapy as an Adjunct to Group Therapy -- Basic Billing and Documentation -- One Model for Cognitive Group Treatment -- Chapter 15: The Value and Use of the MMP1 in Neuropsychological Practice -- Introduction and Background -- Why Use Personality Testing? -- Why Has the MMPI Fallen into Disrepute in Some Circles? -- Challenges to Providing Balance: Identifying Personality Strengths -- Is an Emphasis upon Problem Areas Unique to the MMPI? -- How Do We Protect Against Misuse? -- How Can We Improve Our Use of the MMPI in Clinical Practice?.

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